TY - GEN
T1 - Evaluating social attitudes of a virtual tutor
AU - Pecune, Florian
AU - Cafaro, Angelo
AU - Ochs, Magalie
AU - Pelachaud, Catherine
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was partially performed within the Labex SMART (ANR-11-LABX-65). It has also been partially funded by the French National Research Agency project MOCA (ANR-12-CORD-019).
Publisher Copyright:
© Springer International Publishing AG 2016.
PY - 2016
Y1 - 2016
N2 - In this paper we evaluate a model of social decision-making for virtual agents. The model computes the social attitude of a virtual agent given its social role during the interaction and its social relation toward the interactant. The resulting attitude influences the agent’s social goals and therefore determines the decisions made by the agent in terms of actions and communicative intentions to accomplish. We conducted an empirical study in the context of virtual tutor-child interaction where participants evaluated the tutor’s perceived social attitude towards the child while the tutor’s social role and relation were manipulated by our model. Results showed that both role and social relation have an influence on the agent’s perceived social attitude.
AB - In this paper we evaluate a model of social decision-making for virtual agents. The model computes the social attitude of a virtual agent given its social role during the interaction and its social relation toward the interactant. The resulting attitude influences the agent’s social goals and therefore determines the decisions made by the agent in terms of actions and communicative intentions to accomplish. We conducted an empirical study in the context of virtual tutor-child interaction where participants evaluated the tutor’s perceived social attitude towards the child while the tutor’s social role and relation were manipulated by our model. Results showed that both role and social relation have an influence on the agent’s perceived social attitude.
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U2 - 10.1007/978-3-319-47665-0_22
DO - 10.1007/978-3-319-47665-0_22
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84994545319
SN - 9783319476643
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 245
EP - 255
BT - Intelligent Virtual Agents - 16th International Conference, IVA 2016, Proceedings
A2 - Khooshabeh, Peter
A2 - Traum, David
A2 - Swartout, William
A2 - Scherer, Stefan
A2 - Leuski, Anton
A2 - Kopp, Stefan
PB - Springer Verlag
T2 - 16th International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents, IVA 2016
Y2 - 20 September 2016 through 23 September 2016
ER -